Russian missile strike on Pryluky kills at least 22 and injures 55 (updated)
Russian forces launched a missile strike on Pryluky in the Chernihiv Region (Oblast) on the morning of 7 October 2026, the head of the Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, Viacheslav Chaus, and the National Police press service stated. The attack hit a five-storey apartment block, a children’s and youth creativity centre, and an enterprise. The strike killed at least 22 civilians, including four children. In total, Russians killed 28 people in Ukraine on 7 October, Internal Affairs Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi reported.
On the night of 7 October, Russians launched a large-scale combined attack on Ukraine, using anti-ship, ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as 130 drones. Air defence forces shot down or suppressed 161 aerial targets. The strikes caused deaths and injuries. Residential buildings, enterprises and critical, transport and other civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
“The number of injured people has risen to 50, including seven children. Search operations for people under the rubble of the multi-storey building are ongoing,” the police wrote.
According to the head of the Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration, at least 27 injured people were hospitalised, three of whom are in a critical condition. Another 23 people are receiving outpatient medical care.
Rescuers have already saved 12 people. According to the police, children are among the injured, including a three-year-old, a five-year-old, an eight-year-old and two nine-year-old girls.
A Russian strike killed 58-year-old Viktoriia Bondarenko, her 37-year-old daughter Kateryna Antypenko and her one-year-old grandson Oleksandr, the public broadcaster Suspilne reported.
The family killed in a missile strike on a multi-storey building in Pryluky on 7 October. Suspilne Chernihiv/Instagram of Viktoriia Bondarenko and Kateryna AntypenkoThe older granddaughter, Olha, survived. She was in another room at the time of the strike. Relatives are currently caring for the girl.
The family lived on the fifth floor of the destroyed building. Kateryna worked at a local kiosk to support the family. Her mother stayed at home to look after the younger grandson. Kateryna’s husband works abroad and is already travelling home.
A railway worker’s family is also among the dead, the head of Ukrainian Railways, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, reported. A Russian missile killed the train driver, his wife and their two children – an eight-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.
In total, the infrastructure of Kyiv and 12 oblasts of Ukraine came under attack overnight.
Two people were killed in a Russian attack on the Darnytskyi District in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, the local military administration reported in the morning.
It later stated that eight people were injured in a Russian attack, and another 12 were rescued throughout the day on 7 October. In the Solomianskyi District, a Russian strike caused a fire on the first to third floors of a five-storey residential building. Firefighters rescued 12 people from the upper floors. Seven people were injured. One of them was hospitalised.
Another person was injured at a different address. There is no fire or destruction there. A Kyiv State Emergency Service identification specialist is working at the scene.
Two people were killed in Oleksandriia, Kirovohrad Oblast, Serhii Kuzmenko, the head of the Oleksandriia hromada reported, on Facebook.
In the Sviatoshynskyi District, the roof of a four-storey administrative building was partially destroyed, with no fire.
Russians destroyed the warehouse facilities of the Knyholav publishing house in Kyiv’s Podil District during this attack, the publishing house reported. These premises stored the publishing house’s books, which had been restored after the first Russian strike on Knyholav’s warehouses in July.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Facebook that one of the key targets was Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
“The Russians wanted to strike painfully and demonstratively. This was one of the most vile strikes: 70 missiles in total, many of them ballistic, as well as “shaheds.” Unfortunately, only some of them were shot down. Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge. And air defense packages for us right now are a vital necessity. That is why every day we are looking for missiles for Patriot systems that can and must actually protect people’s lives here, in Ukrainian skies. Thank you to everyone who is helping us,” the president stated.
To provide background, on 5 October, the US president Donald Trump once again blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s oil refining industry for rising fuel prices.
“What’s driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz, because Record Numbers of Barrels are coming out now on an almost daily basis, but the word, ‘Refineries,’ where Russia’s are being blown up by Ukraine,” he wrote on social media platform Truth Social.
Trump has not secured an end to Russia’s war within 24 hours of taking office, as he had promised. Furthermore, numerous Ukrainian and international experts point out that the U.S., as a guarantor state under the Budapest Memorandum, is pressuring Kyiv into capitulation.
Russia received more than 176,000 tonnes of petroleum products from South Korea in July and August 2026, an adviser to the president of Ukraine on sanctions policy, Vladyslav Vlasiuk, stated on Facebook. The bulk of the supplies consisted of diesel fuel. In August, Korean supplies accounted for about 31% of all Russian fuel imports.
The press service of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung rejected accusations that Russia imported petroleum products from South Korean ports, Reuters reported. South Korean authorities stated that they have “consistently applied sanctions and export controls against Russia in close coordination with the international community” since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the South Korean presidential press service said. The press service added that Seoul is checking the facts and any export control issues and will take necessary measures if sanctions violations are found.
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